Simon Willison’s Weblog

Multiline JavaScript shell. My favourite bookmarklet just got even better.

# 15th April 2005, 7:42 am

ipfree.py. Works out where an IP is located, on a per-country basis.

# 15th April 2005, 1:37 am

Web Browser Standards Support. David Hammond is taking on the thankless task of compiling browser support charts.

# 15th April 2005, 1:32 am

Definitive Solution to Image Replacement (?) (via) Uses scary hacks and HTCs, but seems to cover all the bases.

# 14th April 2005, 9:58 pm

Avalon/XAML First Look (via) Dave Shea is concerned about XAML polluting the web. So am I.

# 14th April 2005, 9:54 pm

Mozilla XPath Documentation. This is extremely useful for writing Greasemonkey user scripts.

# 14th April 2005, 12:57 pm / greasemonkey, mozilla, xpath

PSP Browser Object Support (via) The PSP’s built-in browser has very basic JavaScript support.

# 14th April 2005, 12:51 pm

Check Range user script. The bookmarklet master dips his toes in to Greasemonkey.

# 14th April 2005, 12:46 pm / greasemonkey

Lawrence, Kansas: Convergence Capital USA (via) NPR report on my former place of work.

# 14th April 2005, 8:59 am

Smart vs. Dumb Templates. Ian argues for smart template languages, because layout isn’t as simple as you think.

# 13th April 2005, 6:42 pm

zestyping: In the time-wasting hacks department... Ping’s iChat buddy icon now features a sparkline, and rotates over the course of the day.

# 13th April 2005, 5:07 pm

lxml (via) A Pythonic wrapper for libxml2.

# 13th April 2005, 5:04 pm / libxml2, python, xml

Howto Generate PDFs in Rails. Use HTMLDoc, PdfWriter or Ruby FPDF.

# 13th April 2005, 5:03 pm / rails

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? I’m pretty much thinking what Chris Applegate is thinking.

# 13th April 2005, 5 pm

Safari WebDevAdditions (via) I haven’t tried these yet, but they look useful.

# 13th April 2005, 4:55 pm

Continuations for Curmudgeons. They aren’t as scary as you may have been lead to believe.

# 13th April 2005, 4:54 pm

Benefits (Ftrain.com) (via) This is why the NHS, for all its flaws, is a very very good idea.

# 13th April 2005, 4:11 pm

Why Greasemonkey is good for publishers (via) Free usability tips and bug fixing—your users know more than you do.

# 13th April 2005, 4:09 pm / adrian-holovaty, greasemonkey

Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.

# 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm / fastcgi, rails, scaling

Colorization Using Optimization. Holy cow, this is impressive.

# 12th April 2005, 12:08 am

Ubuntu 5.04 Release Notes (via) What’s new in Hoary.

# 8th April 2005, 2:57 pm

See the sights with Google Maps. MetaFilter thread with links to interesting satellite photos on Google Maps.

# 8th April 2005, 10:23 am

A Tour of the BBC Film Archive at Windmill Road. Martin Belam continues his streak of fascinating posts about the BBC.

# 8th April 2005, 9:20 am / film

Anabasis: Userscript.org. Jeremy wants feedback on his plans for a userscript directory site.

# 8th April 2005, 8:42 am

Geekcheat vi reference mug (via) I want one!

# 8th April 2005, 2:32 am

Now, Really, As Bigoted As You Think. Kansas passed the gay marriage amendment.

# 6th April 2005, 4:14 pm

Slashdot interview with Mark Shuttleworth. Some great answers on Ubuntu.

# 6th April 2005, 10:18 am / slashdot

Interview: 43Folders’ Merlin Mann. LifeHacker talks to a Life Hacker.

# 6th April 2005, 10:17 am

Customizing Opera. Tips from one of Opera’s developers.

# 6th April 2005, 9:51 am

Multi-threaded JavaScript (with Rhino). Good tutorial on using Rhino to do cool things with JavaScript.

# 6th April 2005, 6:42 am